the distinctive tone patterns of such a language are sometimes called tonemes, by analogy with phoneme. Tonal languages are common in East and Southeast...

欲 /∅/ 精(정) /t͡s/ 照(조) /t͡ɕ/ 淸(청) /t͡sʰ/ 穿(천) /t͡ɕʰ/ 敷(부) /fʰ/ 挹(읍) /ʔ/ Toneme falling mid to falling mid to falling mid mid to falling dipping/ mid mid...

Norwegian dialects (dialekter) are commonly divided into four main groups, 'Northern Norwegian' (nordnorsk), 'Central Norwegian' (trøndersk), 'Western...

signed, that differ in only one phonological element, such as a phoneme, toneme or chroneme, and have distinct meanings. They are used to demonstrate that...

宣城雁翅) /ɾ̥ɦiɔ55/ 條; 'strip' (Jingxian 涇縣) Wu varieties typically have 7-8 tonemes though varieties may have as many as 12 tones or as few as 5. Many merge...

Phonemic orthography Phonology Phonological change Phonotactics Sphoṭa Toneme Triphone Viseme There is allophonic variation of this tone. It may be realized...

variants or separate phonemes.[citation needed] There are two underlying tonemes, L (low) and H (high); phonetically, L, H, mid, HL, and LH are all found...

Thus, the basic tonemes of Gbe are 'High' and 'Non-High', where the High toneme may be realised as High or Rising and the Non-High toneme may be realised...

not occur. A low tone is therefore better described as the absence of any toneme; it is a kind of default tone that is overridden by high or falling tones...

have two tonemes (numbered 4 and 8 in the diagram above) that occur in checked syllables (those ending in a stop consonant) and five tonemes in syllables...